In 1965, an article in Readers Digest entitled "Oak Island's Mysterious Money Pit" inspires some of the greatest chapters in the world's longest-running treasure hunt.

The answers to a 229-year-old treasure mystery may be connected to a former American slave and British soldier who became one of Oak Island's wealthiest residents.

A perfect storm of clues suggests that Oak Island’s mysterious Money Pit was created by a famed 17th century English politician who is known to have possessed one of history’s greatest sunken treasures.

The most significant clue to solving the 230-Year-Oak Island mystery may be a lead cross, whose design has been found not only on the island, but all across the globe.

In 1746, a mysterious ship's log was written suggesting that a vast treasure may have been buried on Oak Island by a French admiral who was connected to the Knights Templar.

In the late 1930s, a man named Gilbert Hedden explored some of the most astonishing theories, and made some of the most critical discoveries in the entire history of the Oak Island treasure hunt.

Compelling evidence suggests that numerous treasures were hidden on Oak Island over a number of centuries by interconnected groups who shared secret and sacred knowledge.

Over the past 230 years, hundreds of people have undertaken extensive digging operations on Oak Island in the hopes of reaching the bottom of a deep, ingeniously designed shaft known as the Money Pit.